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The Chinese Cinema To-day

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Hsiung Deh-Ta
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“As the motion picture is one of the most popular arts and one of the Party's most effective weapons of propaganda and education, in our film undertakings we must necessarily put political ideological work and the question of creative thinking in the leading position, strengthen the Party's leadership over the cinema.…” Thus declared Hsia Yen, Deputy Minister of Culture. But the problem is, how much artistic independence must be sacrificed in order to strengthen the Party's leadership over the cinema? The answer seems to be clear after viewing the dozen or so films from China shown recently at the National Film Theatre in London.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 4 , December 1960 , pp. 82 - 87
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1960

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References

1 “Struggle for a Continuing Great Leap Forward in the Film Industry,” People's Daily, 02 2, 1960Google Scholar, reproduced in part in The China Quarterly, No. 2, 04–06 1960.Google Scholar

2 Winner of a silver medal at the Moscow Film Festival of August 1959, this film was voted one of the most popular films in China in 1959 in a poll conducted in Peking and Shanghai according to the New China News Agency (NCNA), January 24, 1960.

3 Voted second in popularity in the Peking-Shanghai poll. NCNA lac. cit.